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Primordial black holes (PBHs), as a potential macroscopic candidate for dark matter, can encounter other compact objects in dark matter halos because of their random distribution. Besides, the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) related…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-13 Saeed Fakhry , Zahra Salehnia , Azin Shirmohammadi , Javad T. Firouzjaee

The origin of the binary black hole mergers observed by LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA remains an open question. We calculate the merger rate from primordial black holes (PBHs) within the density spike around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Wei-Xiang Feng , Simeon Bird , Hai-Bo Yu

In this study, we investigate the impact of modified gravity on the merger rate of compact binaries within dark-matter spikes surrounding super-massive black holes (SMBHs). Specifically, we calculate binary merger rates involving primordial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-23 Saeed Fakhry , Sara Gholamhoseinian , Marzieh Farhang

It has been suggested that primordial black holes (PBHs) of roughly 30 solar masses could make up the dark matter and if so, might account for the recent detections by LIGO involving binary black holes in this mass range. It has also been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-26 Hiroya Nishikawa , Ely D. Kovetz , Marc Kamionkowski , Joseph Silk

Mergers of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) may contribute to the gravitational wave mergers detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration. We study the dynamics of PBH binaries dressed with dark matter (DM) spikes, for PBHs with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Pratibha Jangra , Bradley J. Kavanagh , J. M. Diego

We have studied the merger rate of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the ellipsoidal-collapse model of halo to explain the dark matter abundance by the PBH merger estimated from the gravitational waves detections via the Advanced LIGO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-11 Saeed Fakhry , Javad T. Firouzjaee , Mehrdad Farhoudi

The LIGO/Virgo collaboration has by now observed or constrained the gravitational merger rates of different classes of compact objects. We consider the possibility that the bulk of these mergers are primordial black hole (PBH) mergers of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Karsten Jedamzik

The annihilation rate of weakly interacting cold dark matter particles at the galactic center could be greatly enhanced by the growth of a density spike around the central supermassive black hole (SBH). Here we discuss the effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 David Merritt , Milos Milosavljevic , Licia Verde , Raul Jimenez

One of the seemingly strongest constraints on the fraction of dark matter in the form of primordial black holes (PBH) of ${\cal O}$(10)$\,M_\odot$ relies on the merger rate inferred from the binary BH merger events detected by LIGO/Virgo.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Guillermo Ballesteros , Pasquale D. Serpico , Marco Taoso

Primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $(30$--$100)~M_{\odot}$ are interesting candidates for dark matter, as they sit in a narrow window between microlensing and cosmic microwave background constraints. There are however tight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-25 Celine Boehm , Archil Kobakhidze , Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Zachary S. C. Picker , Mairi Sakellariadou

The merger rate of primordial black hole (PBH) binaries can be used to understand the source population of the merging black hole binaries observable through gravitational-waves (GWs) and also to constrain the possible contribution of PBHs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Muhsin Aljaf , Ilias Cholis

The LIGO/Virgo collaboration have by now detected the mergers of ten black hole binaries via the emission of gravitational radiation. The hypothesis that these black holes have formed during the cosmic QCD epoch and make up all of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Karsten Jedamzik

In this work, we study the effect of a high-precision semianalytical mass function on the merger rate of primordial black holes (PBHs) in dark matter halos. For this purpose, we first explain a theoretical framework for dark matter halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-07 Saeed Fakhry , Antonino Del Popolo

The influence of a dark matter halo around pair of primordial black holes on their orbit evolution and the black hole merger rate is considered. Because of the nonspherical (nonradial) contraction of DM shells, each shell upon the first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-31 V. D. Stasenko , Yu. N. Eroshenko

We study the merger rate of primordial black holes (PBHs) in self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halo models. To explore a numerical description for the density profile of SIDM halo models, we use the result of a previously performed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 Saeed Fakhry , Mahdi Naseri , Javad T. Firouzjaee , Mehrdad Farhoudi

Primordial black holes (PBHs) from the early Universe that can contribute to dark matter (DM) abundance have been linked to gravitational wave observations. Super-massive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies are expected to modify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Qianhang Ding , Minxi He , Volodymyr Takhistov

As a candidate of dark matter, primordial black holes (PBHs) have attracted more and more attentions as they could be possible progenitors of the heavy binary black holes (BBHs) observed by LIGO/Virgo. Accurately estimating the merger rate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 You Wu

Mainly motivated by the recent GW190521 mass gap event which we take as a benchmark point, we critically assess if binaries made of a primordial black hole and a black hole of astrophysical origin may form, merge in stellar clusters and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 K. Kritos , V. De Luca , G. Franciolini , A. Kehagias , A. Riotto

Primordial black holes (PBHs), possibly constituting a non-negligible fraction of dark matter (DM), might be responsible for a number of gravitational wave events detected by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA. In this paper, we simulate the evolution of PBH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-22 Muhsin Aljaf , Ilias Cholis

In this paper, the merger rate of black holes in a cluster of primordial black holes (PBHs) is investigated. The clusters have characteristics close to those of typical globular star clusters. A cluster that has a wide mass spectrum ranging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-01 Viktor D. Stasenko , Alexander A. Kirillov
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